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Mark Zuckerberg: WhatsApp Is 'Far More Private and Secure' Than iMessage
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You make an excellent point. I've really come to question the necessity of following this site. In the days I started following MR was around 2007; I was a "Creative" at an Apple store. Steve Jobs was still alive, and I was in love with the "Apple Culture". Part of that enthusiasm was due to this forum. But now, like all areas of the internet, hate runs ridiculously rampant here. I hate what it (MacRumors) has become. I only stay here out of habit; it appears more and more I should change my way of thinking...
Farewell to a golden era...
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Not sure his controllers would be happy with his performance recently.
He’s a bit more than a money grab… He’s a robotic human installed into his position to run CIA/DARPA’s LifeLog population surveillance program, AKA Facebook.
Not sure his controllers would be happy with his performance recently.
It’s a setting on your phone not on their end.
If you’re not even doing security updates, you probably have bigger issues than worrying about Apple getting your messages. Perhaps a vulnerability was exploited to get information off your phone? Of course this isn’t done by Apple.
I don’t think Apple, or anyone would remotely access your phone, unless you were some sort of top level government official or a political dissenter.
It’s the same reason they allow, and even promote people who dislike Apple products or Apple as a company to hang around here. It gets people fired up, and that means more engagement and more ads. It’s just how the Internet works now.
Hey look at that, he has discovered "Alternative facts"
I would trust Bernie Madolf more than Zuc
I would trust Bernie Madolf more than Zuc
I have evidence of Signal doing the same data mining.
Signal requires a phone number to even use the darn thing. That is a dead giveaway that it's not secure, and not even imessage requires that.
Apple, like all the tech companies, collaborates with the deep state. But it is one of the less cooperative ones. I used to trust imessage until apple came out with that "lets scan all your photos to make sure you aren't a sicko taking degenerate photos of children" scheme, but I'd still trust it over Signal or Whatsapp.
What is safe? Take a look at an open source protocol like Session. But please let's not spread the idea that Signal is safe or secure.
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I notice he doesn't compare WhatsApp to Signal, Telegram, Threema, SafeSwiss or any of the many other private messenger apps out there.
You may refuse to use it but then you are isolated to the US. Not defending Whatsapp but outside the US that is what everyone uses. Nobody uses iMessages outside the US. Good luck with that.
Seriously, though SMS needs to go away and RCS just needs to fully replace it.Meta is just one more voice against RCS
It seem as though an opinion has been converted into marketing misinterpretation.
Also, if you are concerned about privacy, it is recommended do a local backup of your iPhone.
He's being misleading about iMessage not having encrypted backups. Yes, iCloud backups are not end-to-end encrypted. But iCloud backups don't even contain iMessages.
Also, if you are concerned about privacy, it is recommended do a local backup of your iPhone.
He's being misleading about iMessage not having encrypted backups. Yes, iCloud backups are not end-to-end encrypted. But iCloud backups don't even contain iMessages.
There’s really not a need for it. Anyone concerned about security stopped using SMS loooong ago. That’s why the US carriers who were working on it stopped in 2021.
True. The actual credit should go to the original WhatsApp carriers instead of Zuck. Let’s say we are lucky that WhatsApp has maintained the e2ee and worked further for encrypting the backups. The two founders left Facebook because at that time, they were asked to compromise the encryption.
